APAnalysis: India's leader will be challenged by an apparent slowdown in the economy and the effects of Hindu nationalism on religious minorities.
FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2014, file photo, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during a campaign rally ahead of local elections in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. Modi and the BJP on Thursday, May 23, 2019, claimed a thunderous sweep of India’s general elections, winning well over the 272 seats in the lower house of Parliament required to form a government. Modi described his first term in office as “filling in potholes," shorthand for addressing the country’s basic needs.
The victory signals that millions of Indians believe that Modi’s leadership is what the country needs to become a modern, developed and prosperous nation, while raising questions over how he and his party use such hefty political capital to advance their Hindu-first ideology and development agenda. Other ideas, such as doubling the incomes of India’s legions of distressed farmers and building millions of homes to replace mud huts, are promises from his 2014 campaign that are still unfulfilled.
“We have to carry through more structural reforms and accelerate growth and for that, we have to open up more sectors of the economy. We will continue with our earlier policies of extending electricity, housing and other benefits to reach Indians in rural areas and we will enhance the flows of private investment coming in. The big challenge is to accelerate our growth rate,” he said.
On the BJP goal of building a Hindu temple at Ayodhya, the site where the Babri Masjid mosque was demolished by a Hindu mob in 1992, the BJP election manifesto stated: “All alternative options will be explored for its construction in a most conducive manner.”
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